Bed-Stuy Events
Sunday, Sept 7th
Appalach-Wick
12pm-6pm: For the second Summer season of The Lot at 16 Harrison Place, we have continued to investigate, through visual and creative means, new ideas of artistic community. Appalach-wick is a light hearted play on the idea of a communal art space, here in Brooklyn. The Lot is a stage for creative people willing to go all in, put themselves out there, and collaborate with the other artists creating work outdoors in our space.
Like the culture of the Appalachian communities that found networks of independent craftspeople to support each other in hard times, Appalach-Wick is built on the premise that emerging artists will need to become far more locally self-sustaining and self-actualizing even as the wired world opens up the theoretical possibility of a universal community without borders.
Furthermore, we recognize the essential role community plays in the success of not only the artist but also the art form itself. In addition to displaying the work and its process, Appalach-wick will serve as a sort of informal artisan’s guild, giving craftsmen the opportunity to share resources, materials and marketing opportunities with one another.
Over the 6 weeks The Lot at 16 Harrison Place has featured a group of like-minded local artists being asked to meet and create work in situ, but more importantly to talk to one another, sharing their own thoughts and fears, with the hope that new connections will arise and new models (and patterns) of behavior will emerge.
Our closing weekend will host a dancer/choreographer, a sculptor, muralist, a poet, a photographer/blogger, hoola hoopers, an angel card reader, and live figure drawing among others who will create an experimental laboratory that is open to the public.
Appalach-Wick
12pm-6pm: For the second Summer season of The Lot at 16 Harrison Place, we have continued to investigate, through visual and creative means, new ideas of artistic community. Appalach-wick is a light hearted play on the idea of a communal art space, here in Brooklyn. The Lot is a stage for creative people willing to go all in, put themselves out there, and collaborate with the other artists creating work outdoors in our space.
Like the culture of the Appalachian communities that found networks of independent craftspeople to support each other in hard times, Appalach-Wick is built on the premise that emerging artists will need to become far more locally self-sustaining and self-actualizing even as the wired world opens up the theoretical possibility of a universal community without borders.
Furthermore, we recognize the essential role community plays in the success of not only the artist but also the art form itself. In addition to displaying the work and its process, Appalach-wick will serve as a sort of informal artisan’s guild, giving craftsmen the opportunity to share resources, materials and marketing opportunities with one another.
Over the 6 weeks The Lot at 16 Harrison Place has featured a group of like-minded local artists being asked to meet and create work in situ, but more importantly to talk to one another, sharing their own thoughts and fears, with the hope that new connections will arise and new models (and patterns) of behavior will emerge.
Our closing weekend will host a dancer/choreographer, a sculptor, muralist, a poet, a photographer/blogger, hoola hoopers, an angel card reader, and live figure drawing among others who will create an experimental laboratory that is open to the public.